{"id":6752,"date":"2010-05-23T13:59:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T04:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6752"},"modified":"2010-05-23T13:59:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T04:59:21","slug":"singapore-straits-times-lee-kwan-yew-advises-japan-not-to-accept-immigrants-who-dont-look-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6752","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Straits Times: Lee Kwan Yew advises Japan not to accept immigrants who don’t look Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0Nothing breeds arrogance quite like success. \u00a0It must be nice to have created a rich city-state in your image, so you think you can claim enough legitimacy to bald-facedly tell other countries to do as you say, not as you do. \u00a0We have elder statesman Lee Kwan Yew of Singapore offering his opinions earlier this week to the GOJ about how to deal with immigration — where he advocates a “homogeneous Japan” solution that chooses people based upon their thoroughbredness. \u00a0Well on behalf of all of us non-thoroughbred Japanese citizens: \u00a0nuts to you Lee Kwan Yew.<\/p>\n

It’s a pity, since he does offer a number of good points, meaning that age doesn’t necessarily mean people turn into bigoted curmudgeons like Tokyo Governor Ishihara<\/a>. \u00a0Here is a scan of the full article (an online excerpt available at http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/BreakingNews\/Asia\/Story\/STIStory_529528.html<\/a>). \u00a0Courtesy of Steve in Tokyo. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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PS: \u00a0I wonder if Lee believes his fellow Chinese fall into the category of being “from the high end”? \u00a0Many of his fellow “homogeneous Japan” proponents in Japan<\/a> would not think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing breeds arrogance like success. It must be nice to have created a rich city-state in your image, so you think you can claim enough legitimacy to bald-facedly tell other countries to do as you say, not as you do. We have elder statesman Lee Kwan Yew of Singapore offering his opinions earlier this week to the GOJ about how to deal with immigration — where he advocates a “homogeneous Japan” solution that chooses people based upon their thoroughbredness:<\/p>\n

Lee: “You have the choice to keep Japan homogeneous and shrinking and stagnant economically, or you accept immigrants and grow,” he told the audience… He also advised the Japanese to chose immigrants who can be assimilated more easily. <\/p>\n

“If I were Japanese, I would not want to go beyond people who look like Japanese. I will (also) choose people from the high end, so that the children will also be of a higher calibre.”<\/p>\n

COMMENT: I wonder if Lee believes his fellow Chinese fall into the category of being “from the high end”? Many of his fellow “homogeneous Japan” proponents in Japan would not think so.<\/p>\n

Anyway, on behalf of all of us non-thoroughbred Japanese citizens: nuts to you Lee Kwan Yew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,34,12,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issue","category-exclusionism","category-immigration-assimilation","category-ironies-hypocrisies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}